How To Install pipewire on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire on Rocky Linux 8. pipewire is Media Sharing Server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire on Rocky Linux 8.

What is pipewire

PipeWire is a multimedia server for Linux and other Unix like operating systems.

We can use yum or dnf to install pipewire on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pipewire.

Install pipewire on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install pipewire using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pipewire

Install pipewire on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install pipewire using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pipewire

How To Uninstall pipewire on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the pipewire package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove pipewire

pipewire Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/pipewire
/etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf
/usr/bin/pipewire
/usr/bin/pipewire-media-session
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/e4425818fa85a197d095bbfe2bcecd2db32ba3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/d486a7035b8ffc825999b4167426ca41f03b52
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pipewire.socket
/usr/share/doc/pipewire
/usr/share/doc/pipewire/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/pipewire.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/pipewire.conf.5.gz
/etc/pipewire
/etc/pipewire/pipewire.conf
/usr/bin/pipewire
/usr/bin/pipewire-media-session
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/2390f0b34ffcf29b0ab33f53bc82ef4163b9f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/b6147a1cff599e67485f9cd69bfe6d689c8589
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/user/sockets.target.wants/pipewire.socket
/usr/share/doc/pipewire
/usr/share/doc/pipewire/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/pipewire/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/pipewire.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/pipewire.conf.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pipewire on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.